My local garden club organizes a well-run and significant garden tour every two years known as the Chapel Hill Spring Garden Tour. The dates this year are May 3-4, 2014.
Long before I joined the club I had enjoyed discovering hidden garden gems in the Chapel Hill area by participating in this tour. It is instructive to see different garden styles, to see what plants others gardeners nearby are growing, to get ideas for interesting combinations of plants. Of course, it is also pleasant to walk around Chapel Hill in springtime.
Chapel Hill Spring Garden Tour, May 3-4, 2014
In addition to featuring seven private gardens, this year’s tour also includes the North Carolina Botanical Garden (NCBG) and the local university’s community garden. Funds raised from the tour this year will help support the new Children’s Wonder Garden at NCBG. Artists will be painting en plain air in three of the gardens and the North Carolina Opera will give two performances, so the tour weekend will be quite busy and exciting.
If you are interested in seeing a preview of the gardens that will be on the tour, visit the tour website. In the sidebar there is a list titled “Garden Preview” with links to each garden’s photographs and description.
And if you will be in the Chapel Hill area May 3-4, I encourage you to make plans to tour these special gardens.
How lucky to have so many gardens to visit. with artists and opera too -fantastic! I will look forward to the photos!
It is lucky Pauline, Hope you will enjoy checking out the photos of the gardens.
As I sit here in the frozen tundra, your garden tour sounds like heaven. 🙂
Doesn’t it sound nice? I just have to believe your spring will be exceptional once it arrives.
Nothing better than a spring garden tour. Especially this year when we are all fed up with winter!
The tour is usually in April. Some worried by having it in May the gardens would be finished with the azaleas etc, but winter has slowed things down.
Thank you for the helpful pointer to the NCBG at Chapel Hill. From their website it looks like they have a lot of exemplary models and display gardens. The Home page of the Mason Farm Biological Reserve has a wonderful quote of John Terres’. — THGg
Glad you found it useful. I have seen many of the areas but not the Mason Farm Reserve–something for the to-do list.
Sounds like fun! If I were in the neighborhood I’d surely go.
It really is a fund tour. I’m helping as a garden guide one day and visiting all the gardens with some friends the other day.